Telecom Ramblings

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Steven Raucher, co-founder and CEO of RapidDeploy

The commercial world continues to leap forward, driven by data and information in exciting and innovative ways, but the public safety industry – whose critical mission and need for reliability and resiliency often preclude taking a risk on new and exciting technology –  has not kept pace. This is especially true for 9-1-1 response centers, where telecommunicators and first responders lack [Read more →]

Three data center moves plus a media infrastructure acquisition from around the world: [Read more →]

The Boston metro area has a new competitor when it comes to metro fiber infrastructure.  This morning Lightpath has announced three acquisitions that will take it into the major northeastern market in force, taking it beyond the New York/New Jersey metro area for the first time. [Read more →]

Four network expansion projects, both global and local: [Read more →]

Several interesting items from over the weekend or late last week to catch up on: [Read more →]

Some metro fiber, a couple of colo moves, a little FTTN, and a new hire: [Read more →]

Unite Private Networks is planning to put some resources to work in a market we don’t hear about too often in the infrastructure world. UPN has in mind a significant expansion of its presence in Little Rock, Arkansas. [Read more →]

As long and well travelled as it is, the US/Canadian border has long had only so many fiber routes crossing it. But 123Net now has another one, leveraging a new route built by Bluewater Regional Networks. [Read more →]

Bluebird Network has added some new longhaul capacity to its network out in Missouri. The Midwestern communications infrastructure provider has lit up a new 300-mile circuit between St. Louis and Kansas City. [Read more →]

Three vendor deployments and a partnership spread across four continents worth catching up on at midweek: [Read more →]

Several vendor deployments, a couple new products, and a new data center out in California: [Read more →]

A large chunk of data center assets are changing hands according to an announcement yesterday. QTS Realty Trust and Blackstone say they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, and other Blackstone ‘long term perpetual capital vehicles’ will be buying all of QTS’ outstanding shares for $78 apiece. [Read more →]

In the ongoing pandemic environment, few sectors of this industry have been as much in direct focus as Unified Communications.  It is to UCaaS technologies that so many have turned to for supporting remote workplaces, and NetSapiens is one of those companies that have been in the thick of it all.  So with us today for a return visit is NetSapiens CEO Anand Buch, whom we last talked with in 2017.  In March, NetSapiens agreed to be purchased by Crexendo, creating a larger and broader platform with which to meet challenges going forward. [Read more →]

The prospect of using the Arctic Ocean as an infrastructure highway will remain elusive for a while longer yet. According to Cinia, the Finnish operator helping drive Arctic Connect says that the project has been put on hold for now. [Read more →]

Some SASE, an upgrade project, a ULL wireless deployment, and a partnership: [Read more →]

Another deal completion, an expansion, and two vendor wins: [Read more →]

It’s official, Telia Carrier is no longer part of Telia. Yesterday the Nordic giant announced the completion of the divestment of its international networking division that was announced back in October 2020. [Read more →]

Some parts of the telecom and infrastructure sectors get lots of attention and credit, and some labor behind the scenes enables everyone else.  The engineering and implementation providers generally stay out of the spotlight, but it’s their trucks we pass on the side of the road more often than we realize.  With us today is the CEO of another such low-profile company, Josh Broder of Tilson.  Tilson offers network consulting, design, build, and operating services to projects nationwide, telecom network financing, development, and commercialization, as well as tech due diligence for telecom M&A and broadband consulting for public infrastructure investments. [Read more →]

A few bits of metro-focused news to catch up on before heading to the beach, assuming that’s a thing this year during the pandemic that is (whether it should be or not). [Read more →]

Some interesting international and subsea items worth noting from this week: [Read more →]

One M&A, some data center development, and two international vendor wins. [Read more →]

Four bits of metro infrastructure news in four markets around the US that are worth noting: [Read more →]

Modern IT infrastructure leverages the twin towers of cloud computing and high speed optical and wireless communications.  But it isn’t just the generic enterprise that is navigating the digital transformation, the traditional telecommunications providers themselves must also adapt their legacy systems even as they enable others’ moves to the cloud.  With us today to look at how that process is going is Andrew Walker, Senior Managing Director and Communications & Media industry lead for North America at Accenture.  Andrew has been consulting for the telecommunications and high tech world since the late 90s, joining Accenture six years ago after a decade at Deloitte and rising to his current role a year or so ago. [Read more →]